The good olde days

JONJO THE MISER · 24-03-2011 01:04AM #1

Back in the late 80's early 90's the golden age before all this internet carry on and the twitter machine when people had patience and were not so insular when we had great tv shows before all this reality tv ****e, when feile was alive in tip and the beatbox was on network 2 and when people drank sunkist and wore la gear and when we all tuned into rte at 9:30 on Sat night to watch Dallas drunk before going out to get a free curry at the local nightclub which was included in the admission price, walking 6 miles home and loving it the following morning, when wipmy's was still in Ireland and we could tape tv shows in vhs when jake the snake was on tv and when aer lingus flights cost 1500 pounds to go to london , the golden age:(

Daegerty · 24-03-2011 01:07AM

1945-2000 were probably the best days to live in. Last 10-20 years it has all been downhill, people becoming more insular, the law becoming ever more pervasive and what have you

Saila · 24-03-2011 01:07AM

I was waiting for a point to that

...none came..

chin_grin · 24-03-2011 01:09AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PR_rzF8ofw

24-03-2011 01:18AM

Daegerty wrote: »

1945-2000 were probably the best days to live in. Last 10-20 years it has all been downhill, people becoming more insular, the law becoming ever more pervasive and what have you

I think you mean the last five years, yes, the baby boomers (those born between 1945-50ish) have seen things improve their entire lives, they will have had the best adult lifestyles ever! They will mostly be gone/too old to care by the time the real decline kicks in. Twenty years from now, it will be like the 1950s again, limited car ownership limited jobs etc but with most of the gadgets we have now, well the future versions of them anyway.

Daegerty · 24-03-2011 01:22AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I think you mean the last five years, yes, the baby boomers (those born between 1945-50ish) have seen things improve their entire lives, they will have had the best adult lifestyles ever! They will mostly be gone/too old to care by the time the real decline kicks in. Twenty years from now, it will be like the 1950s again, limited car ownership limited jobs etc but with most of the gadgets we have now, well the future versions of them anyway.

Thats a real shame its not the other way around. I would happily trade the gadgets for the cars. but if Facebook dies and is not replaced by something similar i'd be happy

JONJO THE MISER · 24-03-2011 03:58AM

tread died a death just proves my point really.

mikemac · 24-03-2011 04:07AM

The Trip to Tipp
Your schoolbooks were covered in wallpaper, only rich kids have the clear plastic covers.

RTÉ2 was Network2
Unless you lived on the east coast, you had two channels and you were glad to have them!
Dusty Rhodes was the man on 2FM as compensation. LW252 was great though poor quality compared to FM. But Hollywood Hayes had all the tunes. Until LW252 turned into ****ty talksport, a sad day

Cadet Cola and wagon wheels for sos and lón
Everyone collected football cards, Jurgen Klinsmann was the holy grail of cards, very rare
A holiday was a day in Leisure Land in Salthill. Only rich people fly abroad.
A trip to Dublin cost IR£3.50 single on JJ Kavanaghs (if you're in the midlands you know Kavanaghs!) and you went on December 8th. Once you got there a lad in a tracksuit would ask for change for the bus and you not being street wise would give money :rolleyes::o

Chicago Bulls were the best team in the world, people wore their baseball caps

Parents had issues affording heating oil so you went to bed with a hot water bottle. And so many blankets above you you could barely turn over in the bed! Yep, no heating for much of the year
Even nowadays I rarely use the heating, just don't feel the cold

Farmers owned a jeep and a car.
Quite rare for others to have two cars, some families had one car and many had none. Thumbing was very common at the local crossroads and of course you'd stop and give a lift

Driving home from the pub after a few pints was not only accepted but it was the done thing.

OutlawPete · 24-03-2011 04:10AM

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

..the beatbox was on network 2 ..

Don't think I ever watched that without a hangover.

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

.. free curry at the local nightclub which was included in the admission price, walking 6 miles home and loving it the following morning..

Ah Jets nightclub .. them were the days alight.

Tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty
You're listening to the boy from the big bad city
This is jam hot ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MnELifX3sQ

Jesus Wept · 24-03-2011 04:11AM

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Back in the late 80's early 90's the golden age before all this internet carry on and the twitter machine when people had patience and were not so insular when we had great tv shows before all this reality tv ****e, when feile was alive in tip and the beatbox was on network 2 and when people drank sunkist and wore la gear and when we all tuned into rte at 9:30 on Sat night to watch Dallas drunk before going out to get a free curry at the local nightclub which was included in the admission price, walking 6 miles home and loving it the following morning, when wipmy's was still in Ireland and we could tape tv shows in vhs when jake the snake was on tv and when aer lingus flights cost 1500 pounds to go to london , the golden age:(

Free curries in nightclubs?
Ireland had Whimpy's?

wrote:

Ireland
There are a few outlets in Ireland, most combined with petrol stations. It has an outlet in Urlingford, County Kilkenny, Ireland, which is the location of the rest stop for buses between Dublin and Cork; and one in Celbridge, County Kildare. Most are located in Petrogas (Applegreen) petrol stations, as they hold the master franchise.[5]

I have to say it was 10000x times more enjoyable to go abroad before it became cheap enough for everyone to go everywhere non stop. There are few places you can go where you want see or hear some ham headed **** and you may as well in town on match day.

Khyra24 · 24-03-2011 04:21AM

No offense intended to anyone here but sure there were "good olde days" but not everything was perfect back then as it's definitely not perfect now. Great TV shows back then we would watch and think they're crap now but they were the thing at the time. There are plenty of patient people nowadays, you just won't realize it until today has become part of the good olde days. Also, the internet is a very powerful and useful tool and I'm glad we've advanced as far as we have with it...it's just a shame that many use it mainly for facebook or twitter...but then again, social networking is very useful in itself.

All I'm trying to say is that, yeah, reminisce about the good olde days but you should really be living in the present and enjoy what you can now. And if you don't enjoy anything then make whatever changes you can so you can have a better future for yourself and your descendants. But really, just open your eyes a bit more and you'll see that there are many good things going on today that you turn a blind eye to because you're stuck in the past.

Pdfile · 24-03-2011 04:21AM

the good days imho where when you could go to the shop with a pound your hand and not leave empty handed !

good times :cool:

mikemac · 24-03-2011 04:28AM

The-Rigger wrote: »

Free curries in nightclubs?
Ireland had Whimpy's?

I started a thread on it over in Legal forum a few months back.
In the 80's and early 90's, it was a condition to get a late licence to give a "substantial meal".
Our local nightclub had you pay in and your ticket got you sausages and chips.

Bring this back I say!

As for Whimpys, I remember one near Loughrea, possibly Craughwell around 2002, no idea if Whimpys are still in Ireland

PrincessLola · 24-03-2011 04:34AM

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

when aer lingus flights cost 1500 pounds to go to london , the golden age:(

Holy ****! Really? when was this??

Anyways time for a rousing speech: Nostalgia is bull****. Face it guys, the past is gone and is never gonna come back. the future is now!

Jesus Wept · 24-03-2011 04:36AM

feelingstressed wrote: »

I started a thread on it over in Legal forum a few months back.
In the 80's and early 90's, it was a condition to get a late licence to give a "substantial meal".
Our local nightclub had you pay in and your ticket got you sausages and chips.

Bring this back I say!

As for Whimpys, I remember one near Loughrea, possibly Craughwell around 2002, no idea if Whimpys are still in Ireland

I remember that law, never got a damn thing to eat in a nightclub. :-/

bigmouth writes again · 24-03-2011 04:39AM

PrincessLola wrote: »

Nostalgia is bull****. Face it guys, the past is gone and is never gonna come back. the future is now!

wrong. the past has substance, the future has yet to be written.

if there's anything left to write.. retrospect is your friend. its when it all went off ;p

mikemac · 24-03-2011 04:39AM

Naw, the flights didn't cost that much but you'd easily pay 250 punts for a flight

cassid · 24-03-2011 04:50AM

I remember Club M in Dublin has a set area for food, nobody ate the food but they had to have area of the club set aside for diners as part of the license !

bigmouth writes again · 24-03-2011 05:20AM

'80s backing tapes rule. end-of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eQy-4WV-_I

jd007 · 24-03-2011 07:08AM

PrincessLola wrote: »

Holy ****! Really? when was this??

Anyways time for a rousing speech: Nostalgia is bull****. Face it guys, the past is gone and is never gonna come back. the future is now!

Isn't now the present?

pragmatic1 · 24-03-2011 08:43AM

This is the best time ever in the history of mankind to be alive. The next best time ever will be next year. Its an amazing time to be alive.

24-03-2011 08:57AM

Fek that.. You were just getting laid more OP so it seems better than it was.

who the fug · 24-03-2011 08:59AM

PrincessLola wrote: »

Holy ****! Really? when was this??

Anyways time for a rousing speech: Nostalgia is bull****. Face it guys, the past is gone and is never gonna come back. the future is now!

Bit of exaggeration but a round trip could be £ 300.00 or more.

So have little sympathy for Air fungus

Dravokivich · 24-03-2011 09:25AM

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

and we could tape tv shows in vhs

What's this we business? I still use me VHS...

The Agogo · 24-03-2011 09:47AM

Don't forget callcards to call the missus!

TheZohanS · 24-03-2011 10:05AM

feelingstressed wrote: »

I started a thread on it over in Legal forum a few months back.
In the 80's and early 90's, it was a condition to get a late licence to give a "substantial meal".
Our local nightclub had you pay in and your ticket got you sausages and chips.

Bring this back I say!

As for Whimpys, I remember one near Loughrea, possibly Craughwell around 2002, no idea if Whimpys are still in Ireland

The downside to these "substantial meals" was copious amounts of vomit in nightclubs and occasional cases of food poisoning the following day.

Sykk · 24-03-2011 10:54AM

The good ole days when OP's used full stops :pac:

Donal Og O Baelach · 24-03-2011 11:08AM

pragmatic1 wrote: »

This is the best time ever in the history of mankind to be alive. The next best time ever will be next year. Its an amazing time to be alive.

Wait a minute - you're not one of us... You're a...AN OPTIMIST!

How the fk did you get in here? Where are the Mods?

ROCKMAN · 24-03-2011 11:17AM

Heavy Metal in the Top Hat and SFX...

Kerrydude1981 · 24-03-2011 11:17AM

Sports Staduim with Brendan O Reilly on Saturdays on Network 2,mostly Horse racing and a live soccer on at 3,with George Hamilton and John Giles doing the commentary,nearly always had Liverpool on but it was still great.

pragmatic1 · 24-03-2011 11:24AM

Donal Og O Baelach wrote: »

Wait a minute - you're not one of us... You're a...AN OPTIMIST!

How the fk did you get in here? Where are the Mods?

Nope, I'm a realist.

The good olde days

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